Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research has released its fall Brown Bag Biography Series schedule:

Brown Bag Biography SeriesFall 2014 — Thursdays,Noon – 1:15

Center for Biographical Research • 1800 East West Road, Henke Hall 325

(unless otherwise noted)

August 28: “I, Too, Am Harvard: Storytelling as Art, Community, Resistance”Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Activist and Playwright, Harvard University• Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 •September 4: “Oliver’s Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical”Oliver Lee, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaSeptember 11: “Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History”John P. Rosa, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa• Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 •

September 25: “Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe’s Engagements with Language and Law”Noenoe Silva, Indigenous Politics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa• Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 •

October 2: "Vendettas, Blood Feuds, and Sexual Scandal: Narratives of Self Defense in Renaissance Crime Stories”Peter Arnade, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaOctober 9: “Writing Mother from Memory and Father from Transcripts”Rain Wright Cannon, 2014 Biography Prize LectureOctober 16: “The Value of Hawai‘i 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions"Moderator: Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua and a Panel of Authors fromThe Value of Hawai‘iseries• Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 •October 23: “The Value of Hawai‘i 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions"Moderator: Craig Howes, and a Panel of Authors fromThe Value of Hawai‘iseries• Please note: this session will be held in Kuykendall 410 •October 30: “Hawai‘i Sugar’s Big Five: A Corporate Biography”Carol MacLennan, Department of Anthropology, Michigan Tech UniversityNovember 6: “The Enchanted Wonderer: A War-Time Journey from Stalingrad to Berlin”Anastasia Kostetskaya, Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaNovember 13: “Nā Lima Maiau: Wahine Artists Talk Story”Joy Enomoto and Haley Kailiehu, Department of Art and College of Education,University of Hawai‘i at MānoaNovember 20: Chrétien de Troyes: The First Romantic”Louis Bousquet, Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University of Hawai‘i at MānoaDecember 4: Karl Ove Knausgaard’sMy Struggle: Autobiographical Fiction as Performance”Markus Wessendorf, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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